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Tatenda Ncube Jan 2021
First and last pages coloured differently,
black the other, white the other
and inbetween i'm still colouring
a subtle grey im working on currently
heavy with rains i've coloured the clouds,
now what colour should i use for the thundering?
I flip to the next page and i flip back,
how could i forget to colour the raging wind,
and the ships it has wrecked
the tree that lightning just struck, should i colour it black?
Or better yet let me leave it uncoloured, why express its scars when it has already suffered its worst
Three pages later i'm still colouring.
from the three pages i left one blank,
not that i wanted to but because i had no clue as to what colour to give to death
Or should i go back and colour it too the colour of birth?
Tatenda Ncube Oct 2020
to lose control, to get lost in her soul
to want to give her the whole world,
when he owns not even a grain of it's sand
to call her the prettiest, adorn her with ornaments
to love her with love that sickens even Cupid and stirs hate in Hathor
to make her his queen, clothe her with Plutus's finest linen
To let her drink from his heart, his love her wine

All this he would want
He would want all this
Tatenda Ncube Aug 2020
I can't say I love you
Not that I don't, I do
From the first time we met,
From our first chat
I instantly became a believer in fate
It was never about getting under your skirt, or taking you for a mate
Even though your body of a goddess did tempt
Your lips I did dream to kiss, but to hold your hand throughout the walk of life always topped my list  

I won't say I love you,
Not that I don't, I do
Fear holds my tongue
Oxygen betrays my lungs
My heart races, up and down my brain paces
My left eye twitches,
My scalp itches, I scratch it and I remember why,
I can't say I love you,
Not that I don't, I do
I would, if only the last time I did you had said that you loved me too
Tatenda Ncube Jul 2020
...While we are yet sober,
A while, a little longer
Hold on we aren't getting stronger
Further, yes a little further!
Try to fight, a battle won is a war almost over
Father, yes our father!
Intoxication is soon to colonize our minds
In the morn we are surely to have forgotten
Back to our ways, caressing sin with our hands
The apple from all sides bitten, its seeds an inheritance to our children...
Tatenda Ncube May 2020
All you ever did was take and take and take
You took it all away
All you ever did was take and take and take
You took and you never gave

You found me at my weakest, I was vulnerable
In a life-wreck, I was miserable
You promised you'd take away the pain,
but you took away more...,
more than what we had bargained for

All you ever did was take and take and take
You came in disguise...,
A friend
Our first time was amazing
I thought you heaven sent
Liquid angel sent to numb my pain

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Tatenda Ncube Apr 2020
Behind the blue, the ruins
remnants of it that once was,

"this is your home", says the lifeless voice,
a withered finger slightly touching the framed image,
an image whose appearance serves as proof of it having seen the wars come and go,
Still barely visible in the image a garden of an unidentifiable flowers' specie,
Behind it what appears to be a house, it's color unidentifiable

"they called it industrialization, yes, that's what they decided to name their warfare against the universe.
Their toxic smoke ascended and from home we without a choice descended", the lifeless voice pauses, coughs and continues.
"Now to Mars they ascend,
to her what they did to earth they will do
Oh beautiful Mars I weep for you,
On your fair body soon there'll be scars
Oh lovely Mars where shall you hide,
for look these aliens now come for you", the lifeless voice dies and with it,
it's source.

Behind the blue, the ruins
remnants of it that once was,
a home
A poem within a story within a poem.,..
Tatenda Ncube Apr 2020
A rose on my left, a lily on the other side
One I love,
the other I like
To have both is to gain, to lose either a great pain
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